SLA RESEARCH ON SELF-DIRECTION: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES

OAXACA/97 PROJECT

INPUT SESSION # 3

Metacognitive strategies

1. LEARNING SELF-DIRECTION

1.1 Process of learning a language
1) be ready	2) notice         3)structure	4)renotice and restructure	5)restructure 6)use
1.2 Being aware	(Metacognitive knowledge)
1) intention	2)attention       3) awareness	4) and 5)	6)less
	of	attention and	attention and
	understanding	awareness of understanding	awareness of understanding

1.2 Making decisions (Metacognitive strategies)

1) are you	2) are you	3) did you	4) and 5) are you	6)are you able
ready?	focused?	understand?	sure?	to produce it?

2. Metacognitive strategies

2.1 Concepts:

Cognition.- a mental process. Examples: read, sum up, leam.

Cognitive strategy.- strategy designed to carry out a cognitive process

Metacognitive process.- strategy designed to have control over a cognitive process

2.2 Clasification OfMetacognitive strategies

A. PLANNING                before         organise

B. MONITORING

during

manage
manipulate
check

C. EVALUATING             after          judge

2.3 Conditions for metacognition

- willing to carry out thinking experiences

- this thinking experience has to be fallible and with possible errors

- willing to communicate, explain and justify this thinking experience

- willing to make careful and thoughtful decisions

- with a capacity and necessity to infer and explain psychological experiences

HUMAN BEINGS ARE THE ONL Y ORGANISMS THA T HA VE THESE FEA TURES!!!

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